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Is this a similar business arrangement between Italy & Japan as with the prior Verita Note (which had released quite a number of Italian soundtracks from GDM's Gianni Dell'Orso & EMI General Music & others between 2007 and 2010)?
Yes, it's quite obvious just from these 5 releases that GDM has now found a new Japanese business partner with this Octave label to whom they can license their own EMI General Music titles again. Just as they did in former times with the Japanese Avanz and Verita Note labels.
All these 5 titles released now by Octave do come from the EMI General Music catalogue and are therefore all owned by GDM. So in the near future you can certainly expect similar reissues of titles which had already been available about 10 or 15 years ago on CDs by various labels (GDM, Saimel, Lucertola, Screen Trax etc.)
This would mean that nothing from the CAM catalogue will probably come from Octave as they only deal with GDM.
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I am wondering why Digitmovies has been releasing only 2 titles over the past few months instead of their typical 3-at-a-time.
Perhaps there is a connection between the Digitmovies reduction and these new albums via Octave?
No, I don't see any connection there at all.
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Is Octave the new Verita Note?
Yes, it seems so.
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I think it is nothing really new that Digitmovies has for the moment a bit slowed down their number of CD releases. I remember that there was a similar phase about two years ago when they did also slow down and didn't release three titles per month anymore for a few months, but only two. There are a number of reasons why they would do this. First of all, Digitmovies does not only produce soundtracks, but also installs digital technologies in cinemas and other facilities. They are also concerned with many other things as you can see here:
https://www.digitmovies.com/digitcinema/en/chi-siamo/
So it could be that at the moment they are too busy with such other things.
Secondly, less good CD sales during the first half of the year could be a problem for a lot of smaller European soundtrack labels. And thirdly, the oversaturation of the market with too many Italian scores during the months before summer.
Anyway, Digitmovies has in fact nothing to do with GDM. And if GDM has a new partner with the Japanese Octave label, that's only their business which wouldn't concern Digitmovies. Digitmovies normally is not dependent in any way from GDM - particularly not if Octave just reissues some older titles owned by GDM for their Japanese market. So I see no connection there.
In my opinion it's rather the (too) many releases of Italian scores by the various European CD labels where we could maybe see a connection to the sudden slowdown.
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